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A private Ivy League college in Hanover, New Hampshire, founded by royal charter in 1769. Its 1956 summer research project, proposed by John McCarthy, is credited with launching artificial intelligence as a field.

A public research university in Toronto where Geoffrey Hinton has been affiliated since 1987 and where AlexNet, the 2012 deep convolutional network, was developed.

A US public university founded in 1861, with campuses in Seattle, Bothell and Tacoma and a medical centre serving its state and region; it says it receives more federal research funding than any other US public university.

MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hosted the AI lab that Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy co-founded, which later became CSAIL. The lab also invented Lisp machines, and Minsky co-wrote the book Perceptrons.

The University of California, Berkeley is a public land-grant research university founded in 1868, the first land-grant university in California, known for a long Nobel record, a history of student activism and top rankings among public universities.

Stanford University is a private research university in California, home to the Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) and the Institute for Human-Centered AI, which publishes the AI Index.

Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh has one of the earliest US computer science departments. Its researchers built the Logic Theorist, Sphinx speech recognition and the Deep Blue lineage, and won the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.

The MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, formed in 1970 under Marvin Minsky, grew out of MIT's earlier AI group inside Project MAC; in 2003 it merged with the Laboratory for Computer Science to form CSAIL.

iFlytek is a Chinese information technology company founded in 1999 and headquartered in Hefei. It is known for speech technology and for its Spark large language models, first released on 6 May 2023.

Coursera is an online learning platform launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, offering courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, degrees and skills-focused learning with a mission of universal access to world-class learning.

The University of Alberta's Department of Computing Science is the institutional home of the Chinook checkers project, and the university has trained a long line of researchers who use games to test ideas in artificial intelligence.

Princeton University, chartered in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, is where Turing, McCarthy and Minsky took their doctorates and where Fei-Fei Li began ImageNet; seventeen Turing Award laureates have been affiliated with it.

A public research university in Manchester, England, which dates its founding to 1824 and took its present form in 2004; the Manchester Baby, the first electronic stored-program computer, was built there.

New York University, chartered in 1831 and centred on Washington Square Park, is a private research university whose Courant Institute and Center for Data Science made it a home for machine learning research and data science training.

EPFL, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, is a technical university founded in 1853 and renamed in 1969; it organizes its work around three missions: teaching, research and innovation.

A private research university in Ithaca, New York, founded in 1865. It is also where Frank Rosenblatt studied and worked, and where the perceptron — an early learning machine and the first neural network — was developed.

A public technical university in Munich, founded in 1868, where Sepp Hochreiter wrote the 1991 thesis that produced the first LSTM results, and where Jürgen Schmidhuber studied and later taught.

A French-language public research university in Montreal, founded in 1878 and autonomous since 1919, known today as a centre of deep-learning research and the home institution of Yoshua Bengio and Mila.

A public research university in Beijing's Haidian district, founded in 1911 as Tsinghua College. It is now a major centre for computer science and AI research, with which Turing laureate Andrew Yao, ResNet author Kaiming He and spin-out Zhipu AI are associated.

A society for computing educators, researchers and professionals, founded in 1947 at Columbia University and headquartered in New York, with nearly 110,000 members and the Turing Award among its recognitions.

HHMI is a private biomedical research institution founded in 1953 that funds scientists at all career stages and runs the Janelia Research Campus.

A public research university in La Jolla, San Diego, founded in 1960, where connectionist neural-network research flourished in the 1980s and where data science and computing were later organised into dedicated institutes and a school.

Peking University is a Chinese university that dates its founding to 1898 and reported 53,946 full-time students in a January 2026 snapshot; in September 2020 Zhu Songchun was named to lead its Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

UCLA is the University of California's Los Angeles campus. Its own figures show a large, heavily undergraduate institution: 46,678 students in total, most of them Californians, taught by 5,464 faculty.

A large comprehensive research university in China, with 47 schools, 16 disciplines on the national Double First-Class list, more graduate than undergraduate students, and 36 members of the national academies on its staff.

BIGAI is a non-profit AI research institute in Beijing, led by Zhu Songchun, that works with Peking and Tsinghua universities toward a unified theory of general intelligence and general intelligent agents.